Analytical Solution of the Voter Model on Disordered Networks

Details Analytical Solution of the Voter Model on Disordered Networks Analytical Solution of the Voter Model on Disordered Networks

2008-03-11

arxiv.org/abs/0803.1686v1

New Journal of Physics 10, 063011 (2008)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Statistical Mechanics

20 pages, 8 figures

Scientific paper

10.1088/1367-2630/10/6/063011

We present a mathematical description of the voter model dynamics on heterogeneous networks. When the average degree of the graph is $\mu \leq 2$ the system reaches complete order exponentially fast. For $\mu >2$, a finite system falls, before it fully orders, in a quasistationary state in which the average density of active links (links between opposite-state nodes) in surviving runs is constant and equal to $\frac{(\mu-2)}{3(\mu-1)}$, while an infinite large system stays ad infinitum in a partially ordered stationary active state. The mean life time of the quasistationary state is proportional to the mean time to reach the fully ordered state $T$, which scales as $T \sim \frac{(\mu-1) \mu^2 N}{(\mu-2) \mu_2}$, where $N$ is the number of nodes of the network, and $\mu_2$ is the second moment of the degree distribution. We find good agreement between these analytical results and numerical simulations on random networks with various degree distributions.

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